Well-played Riley. That's how I'd go about it too. Release a few choice quotes to select media outlets (the school paper, the morning announcements, Teen Vogue) about how my popular friends and I plan on schlepping up to prom in just any old thing. How anyone who doesn't wear pajamas to prom is clearly a desperate try-hard. How there is liiiiterally noooothing woooorse than not wearing pajamas to prom.

And then, boom, you and your girls show up on prom night looking like you just attended a party with the cast of Gossip Girl and everyone's like

…Damn.

Jane Keltner de Valle, Teen Vogue's fashion news director, does her part to foster the insane charade by suggesting that girls might want to hit up their local Victoria's Secret for "silky pajamas" (-y being the operative morpheme; those pajamas are polyester) and notes that "sticking to classic or muted colors is best."

She also suggests polishing up the bedtime look with "red lips, heels and festive jewels," for a fun Grey Gardens-type look.